1-1     By:  Shapleigh                                         S.B. No. 276
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 18, 2001; January 22, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
 1-4     February 27, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
 1-5     6, Nays 0; February 27, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the application of a seal to an electronic document.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 121.004, Civil Practice and Remedies
1-11     Code, is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-12           (d)  The application of an embossed seal is not required on
1-13     an electronically transmitted certificate of an acknowledgement.
1-14           SECTION 2.  Section 406.013, Government Code, is amended by
1-15     adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-16           (d)  Subsection (c) does not apply to an electronically
1-17     transmitted authenticated document, except that an electronically
1-18     transmitted authenticated document must legibly reproduce the
1-19     required elements of the seal.
1-20           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-21     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-22     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-23     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-24     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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